Sim appeared with Cole in the films Cottage to Let ( 1941 ), The Happiest Days of Your Life ( 1950 ), Scrooge ( 1951 ), Laughter in Paradise ( 1951 ), The Belles of St. Trinian's ( 1954 ), An Inspector Calls ( 1954 ), The Green Man ( 1956 ) and Blue Murder at St. Trinian's ( 1957 ).

The group was formed after the disbanding of two rival girl groups in the Philadelphia / Trenton areas, the Ordettes and the Del-Capris, forming as a new version of the former group, later changing their name to The Blue Belles ( later Bluebelles ).

As The Blue Belles, their first single was ironically a song that the group didn't participate in-" I Sold My Heart to the Junkman " was, as explained in Patti LaBelle's memoirs, Don't Block the Blessings, originally recorded by The Starlets, then riding high on their hit single, " Tell Him No " and were on the road when the song was released, unable to promote it.

Robinson credited the song to the Blue Belles, who later were sent to promote the song, which peaked at the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100, in 1962.

Following a potential lawsuit from a president of another record label for using the name Blue Belles, Robinson gave Holt the stage name, Patti La Belle ( La Belle means French for " the beautiful one "), and altered the group's name to Patti La Belle and Her Blue Belles.

* < sup > 1 </ sup > Holt changed her name to Patti La Belle in 1963 after Harold Robinson was sued by a manager of a group, also called the Blue Belles, therefore becoming Patti La Belle and Her Blue Belles.

As The Blue Belles ( aka Patti La Belle and Her Blue Belles ; Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles ):

* Sleigh Bells, Jingle Bells and Blue Belles ( Newtown, 1963 )

Gordy hired Cindy Birdsong, a singer with Patti LaBelle & the Blue Belles, as a temporary stand-in for Ballard in April 1967.

In the Jazz Age and during the 1930s, " all-girl " bands such as The Blue Belles, the Parisian Redheads ( later the Bricktops ), Lil-Hardin's All-Girl Band, The Ingenues, The Harlem Playgirls, Phil Spitalny's Musical Sweethearts and " Helen Lewis and Her All-Girl Jazz Syncopators " were popular.

They and nine others are selected to form the Rockford Peaches, while 48 others are split among the Racine Belles, Kenosha Comets, and South Bend Blue Sox.

After almost rejecting the group due to him not being initially impressed with the looks of Patsy Holt before Holt and the group sang to him during an audition, which prompted Robinson to change his mind, signing the group and changing the name of both the group ( into The Blue Belles, based from a Newtown subsidiary, Blue Belle Records ) and Holt's own name, from Patsy Holt to Patti LaBelle.

From 1963 until 1967, The Blue Belles, later Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles, found relative success on the charts and were raved for their live performances.

In 1999, Birdsong and the other Blue Belles received a Pioneer Award from the R & B Foundation and were honored by Lauryn Hill.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

Blue Throat, who had ruled the town with his six-shooter for the last six months, certainly had no intention of relinquishing his profitable dictatorship.

He had conducted the 20-piece band in a series of concerts at Blue Lake park during the summer months.

Due to his lack of expertise in orchestration, the American composer George Gershwin had his Rhapsody in Blue orchestrated and arranged by Ferde Grofé.

The U. S. military began targeting food crops in October 1962, primarily using Agent Blue ; the American public was not made aware of the crop destruction programs until 1965 ( and it was then believed that crop spraying had begun that spring ).

Earlier, Dai had been involved with the Blue Shirts Society, a fascist-inspired paramilitary group within the Kuomintang, which wanted to expel Western and Japanese imperialists, crush the Communists, and eliminate feudalism.

Fuller's ability as a songwriter manifested itself through the intervention of her friend, producer Hal Wallis ; Fuller had wanted to get an acting role in the Elvis Presley movie Blue Hawaii, which Wallis was producing, but instead he put her in touch with Hill & Range, the publisher that provided Presley with songs.

In this documentary, Morris brought to a pinnacle the revolutionary technique that he had first introduced to the world in his 1988 The Thin Blue Line: the use of re-enactments in a documentary film — a technique ( re-enactments ) which had previously been thought to be inappropriate for use in a " documentary " film.

In the mid-1940s, during a depressing lull in his career ( his radio show Blue Ribbon Town had failed, and the Marx Brothers as film performers were well past their prime ), Groucho was scheduled to appear on a radio show with Bob Hope.

Published in Tintin magazine from September 1958 to November 1959, Tintin in Tibet sent Tintin to the Himalayas in search of Chang Chong-Chen, the Chinese boy he had befriended in The Blue Lotus.

In April 1942, as part of a diplomatic counterpart to Case Blue Ribbentrop had assembled in Hotel Adlon in Berlin a collection of anti-Soviet émigrés from the Caucasus with the aim of having them declared leaders of governments in exile.

According to the Daily Express of April 24, 1934, Leni Riefenstahl had read Mein Kampf during the making of her film The Blue Light.

In May 2008, the first Blue Phase Mode LCD panel had been developed.

The Mongols, in particular the Borjigin, had their holiest Tengriist shrine on Mount Burkhan Khaldun where their ancestor Borte Chinua ( Blue Wolf ) and Goo Maral ( Beautiful Doe ) had given birth to them.

Peake's play The Cave, which dates from the mid-1950s, was given a first public reading at the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell ( London ) in 2009, and had its world premiere in the same theatre, directed by Aaron Paterson, on 19 October 2010.

They had earlier collaborated on the play Secrets from the BBC series Black and Blue in 1973.

1992 proved to be the end of an era for the Brewers, as teammates Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Jim Gantner, who had been together since 1978 would go their separate ways, as Molitor left the Brewers for the Toronto Blue Jays, Gantner retired, and Yount would only last one more season before retiring in 1993.

" Rainbow Chaser " was one of the few Nirvana recordings that had any connection with " psychedelic " music, although " Orange and Blue " ( 1970 ) was acknowledged to have been written under the influence of LSD according to the liner notes of the eponymous album.

In 1997, after almost two years of silence, they released their second album, albeit without Deon Blue, who by then had left the band.

He had a string of hits in 1963 with " In Dreams " ( U. S. number 7 / UK number 6 ), " Falling " ( U. S. number 22 / UK number 9 ), " Mean Woman Blues " ( U. S. number 5 / UK number 3 ) coupled with " Blue Bayou " ( U. S. number 29 / UK number 3 ).

U2's lead singer Bono had become aware of Orbison when he saw Blue Velvet and, with The Edge wrote " She's a Mystery to Me " for him.

Toronto was awarded an expansion team called the Blue Jays, but San Francisco baseball fans ' worries about losing their beloved Giants had not completely gone away just yet.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

With its coating of gold radiator paint removed -- a gaucherie of some earlier tenant -- it will now occupy its rightful place in the oval Blue Room on the first floor of the White House.

Ming Tsai, the owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said that American Chinese restaurants typically try to have food representing 3-5 regions of China at one time, have chop suey, or have " fried vegetables and some protein in a thick sauce ," " eight different sweet and sour dishes ," or " a whole page of 20 different chow meins or fried rice dishes.

ACM also sponsors other computer science related events such as the worldwide ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest ( ICPC ), and has sponsored some other events such as the chess match between Garry Kasparov and the IBM Deep Blue computer.

A CD of some of the best Blue Jam sketches was released on 23 October 2000 on Warp Records.

The length within Egypt of the River Nile in its northwards course from three central African sources – the White Nile, the Blue Nile, and the Atbara – totals some 1, 600 km.

The Blue Nile, which originates at Lake Tana in Ethiopia, provides on average some 58 % of the Nile's Egyptian waters.

Blue 1 is used to color candy, soft drinks, and pastries and there has been some evidence that it may cause cancer in mice, but studies have not been replicated.

The Village Gate, the Village Vanguard and The Blue Note ( since 1981 ), hosted some of the biggest names in jazz on a regular basis.

For example, the Appalachian Mountains range is the parent of other ranges it comprises, some of which are the White Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains.

After holding for some years the office of director of the Hospice Trivulzio for Blue Nuns at Milan, she herself joined the sisterhood, and in this austere order ended her days, though the terms of her death are unknown.

The most successful pulp magazines were Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book and Short Stories described by some pulp historians as " The Big Four ".

The natives believed that the island was formed by the Great Spirit placing on the Blue Waters some dark red crescent-shaped clay.

Carter also performed on some of Hancock, Williams and Shorter's recordings during the sixties for Blue Note Records.

Distribution of Rift Valley fever in Africa: Blue, countries with endemic disease and substantial outbreaks of RVF ; green, countries known to have some cases, periodic isolation of virus, or serologic evidence of RVF

Blue Wildebeests, gazelles, zebras and buffalos are some of the commonly found large mammals in the region.

Fans are generally encouraged to sing along, and at some ballparks, the words " home team " are replaced with the team name, as is the case with the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, and several other Major League Baseball teams.

In the 1990s, Bill and Hillary Clinton refurbished some rooms with the assistance of Arkansas decorator Kaki Hockersmith, including the Oval Office, the East Room, Blue Room, State Dining Room, Lincoln Bedroom, and Lincoln Sitting Room.

Previously, the dimensions of the French Blue had been known only from two drawings made in 1749 and 1789 ; although the model slightly differs from the drawings in some details, these details are identical to features of the Hope Diamond, allowing CAD technology to digitally reconstruct the French Blue around the recut stone.

Blue or white ( white for ceremonial occasions in some schools ) shorts for boys under grade 10 ( 15 years of age ) and white longs for boys of and above grade 10. Add caption here

In some jurisdictions the degree is conferred in a Fellow Craft Lodge, that is, the second degree of the Blue Lodge.

A number of beaches, some awarded a Blue Flag designation, line the Mediterranean coast near the city.

By some arguments, while the Blue Grass Boys were the only band playing this music, it was just their unique sound ; it could not be considered a musical style until other bands began performing in similar fashion.

Onobrychis species are used as food plants by the caterpillars of some Lepidoptera species, such as the case-bearer moth Coleophora colutella ( recorded on O. saxatilis ) and the Damon Blue ( Polyommatus damon ) butterfly.